How to Install Zimbra Collaboration on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

In this blog post, I’ll take you through the installation of the latest Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.x Community Edition release on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server. These steps are only for single server installation, for multi-server installation of Zimbra collaboration, see our guide Zimbra Multi-Server Installation on CentOS 7

Installing Zimbra Collaboration on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – Pre-requisites

To use this guide, you should:

Have Installed Ubuntu 18.04 server

Have ssh access to the user – user with sudo privileges

Have DNS server – Dnsmasq should be fine

The recommended system requirements for a Zimbra server which support up to 50 users are:

We are ready to start the installation of Zimbra Collaboration Open Source Edition on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Run the installer script – This is an all in one server installation.

# ./install.sh
Operations logged to /tmp/install.log.DM7y8xw8
Checking for existing installation...
zimbra-drive...NOT FOUND
zimbra-imapd...NOT FOUND
zimbra-patch...NOT FOUND
zimbra-mta-patch...NOT FOUND
zimbra-proxy-patch...NOT FOUND
zimbra-license-tools...NOT FOUND
zimbra-license-extension...NOT FOUND
zimbra-network-store...NOT FOUND
zimbra-network-modules-ng...NOT FOUND
zimbra-chat...NOT FOUND
zimbra-talk...NOT FOUND
zimbra-ldap...NOT FOUND
zimbra-logger...NOT FOUND
zimbra-mta...NOT FOUND
zimbra-dnscache...NOT FOUND
zimbra-snmp...NOT FOUND
zimbra-store...NOT FOUND
zimbra-apache...NOT FOUND
zimbra-spell...NOT FOUND
zimbra-convertd...NOT FOUND
zimbra-memcached...NOT FOUND
zimbra-proxy...NOT FOUND
zimbra-archiving...NOT FOUND
zimbra-core...NOT FOUND
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